Why european / english culture influenced world so much ?

Because they conquered and colonized the bejeezus of everyone else.

Whether those other folk regained their independence or not, the culture remained.

A combination of reasons.

Being situated on the Atlantic seaboard at a critical time is a factor, as England was able to create a significant navy and participate in voyages of exploration when the technology allowed it (mostly following the Portuguese)

After the Acts of Union created the UK, stability at home and a sizable population meant it was able to outcompete the Portuguese and several other nations in establishing a series of trading posts, both because of production/consumption and because of military manpower in defending and extending such posts.

The Enlightenment benefitted innovation and science, as well as commercial freedom, and all this helped encourage progress and spread influence.

Careful choices and astute politics meant establishing lucrative sugar colonies in the Caribbean and also dominating India by walking into the vacuum as the Mughal Empire collapsed, again out-competing the Portuguese, French, Dutch and local powers like the Marathas. Conversely poor governance meant the rebellion of the 13 American colonies, though postwar that allowed local florescence and a great spreading of similar but independent cultural influence.

The early banning of the slave trade provided an impetus for intervening an shutting down many slaving states in Africa, such as the Ashante (now in Ghana) and Zanzibar (now in Tanzania). This encouraged the scramble for Africa, and the UK spread its control over a large area. The growth of the middle classes at home increased affluence, education and cultural progress.

The industrial revolution meant a second burst of commercial advantage, and technologies like railways and civil engineering also spread influence. Education became important for the colonies, and the English language was the major medium. This also meant that all sorts of fashions and other cultural attributes became popular around the world.

I should say that there has been a sizable French, Spanish and Portuguese influence in a similar manner, as well as some others like Dutch and German. Russian became the predominant language of central Asia and Siberia with the imperial expansion there. However English is the language that has come to predominate commercially. The pre-WW II British Empire was a major cause, and post WW II the economic influence of the USA has been the main factor.

So it's geographical circumstance, political stability, and intellectual freedom with its consequent innovation and technology.

Europeans were technological leaders 1500 - 1940, but specially the British after about 1750. Superior technology, superior ship navigation, relatively free British society (by comparison with most other countries) a porous, flexible class system and responsible government which changed party (Whig to Tory) every decade or so preventing entrenched power blocks and leading to lower levels of official corruption, widespread literacy leading to better communications and better organisation. Also aided by abandonment of rigid religious influence in government after the English civil war.

The French were not far behind the British most of this time but their relatively poor "ancien regime" monarchical government and deep involvement in continental wars which the British could largely afford to ignore held them back.

For most of that time the Germans were a set of tiny kingdoms, not united until the 1860s or so. The only other large western European nation, Spain was priest-ridden and hidebound by a rigid class system. Further, it had been impoverished by inflation brought on by massive imports of "free" gold and silver from South America. Most of the South and Central American colonies rebelled in the period 1750 - 1830 and the Spanish spent that critical period trying to hold on to them.

The British finally lost their technological lead to the US about 1940 though they began to slip by 1900 or so. This was largely due lack of home ground resources and the mass slaughter of the male population during the First World War and made worse by the governments of the 1800s allowing the universities to refuse to teach engineering and science without Greek and Latin, which by that time were irrelevant.

Due to geographical location, were first to benefit from industrial revolution (good land for raising sheep to produce wool and ready availability of water routes for trade) so they developed faster technologically.

British conquests is main reason English is international language...Greek used to be international language coza Alexander.

More developed, bro. Though most cultures have been influenced by another at some point. @Maurag, same goes for the Spaniards and French.

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White.However,Asian cultures also influenced the world greatly e.g. Rice,Paper,Compass,Gunpowder etc. are all asian culture/inventions

They were the first with wide-scale industrialized production of firearms and were of an expansionist nature.

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Because they were white.